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About Maria Burns Ortiz

I am a journalist and tech entrepreneur. On the journalism end, I’m digital journalist with more than a decade of experience. I embraced blogging journalistically in 2003, pushed for Web-versions of my newspaper stories to run before they ran in the paper in 2005 and can attribute my use of social media to landing me jobs […]

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I am extremely excited to be able to say that I am going to be the ESPN.com social media columnist. The column will begin running in early April and will cover all things social media as they relate to sports. It initially will be a biweekly column, later becoming a weekly feature on the site. […]

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While the purpose of this blog is primarily to highlight the content I produce, I do occasionally like to highlight some of the other relevant journalism work I do. The recent National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Region 2 conference that I organized is an example. Since becoming regional director in the Fall of 2009, I’ve […]

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Contributing Sports Editor of Anyguey

I recently signed on to become an contributing editor for Guanabee, a site dedicated to the intersection on news and pop culture with a Latino take and an edgy tone. More specifically, I will write about sports for the site’s Anyguey page as well as work with the publisher and managing editor to develop a […]

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During the Fall 2010 semester, I will be a visiting lecturer at Tufts University through the Experimental College, a department that focuses on “educational innovation, expansion of the undergraduate curriculum.” As a lecturer, I am teaching a class titled “Sports Journalism in the Internet Age.” The goal of the course, which I designed myself, is […]

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When I relaunched the NAHJ Sports Task Force this past spring, I wanted to make sure that we were active in working to make a difference for Latinos in sports journalism. That’s why I launched a mentoring program at the convention in Denver. I initially expected handful of people to express interest. Generally, the response […]

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NAHJ Sports Task Force Relaunch

Although this site has largely been dedicated to posting selected stories and creating an online portfolio of my work, I also think it’s important to highlight some of the other relevant work I’ve been doing. When I was elected to the board of directors for National Association of Hispanic Journalists last summer, one of my […]

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Welcome to my professional blog. I have a number of links around the Web, but thought it might be helpful to have one site where they’re all compiled.  I will also be using this site to keep you up-to-date on other career developments. As a freelance journalist, I’m always looking for work. If you like […]

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